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James Comey Is Maxwell Smart

How Comey’s botched mission to safeguard a Hillary presidency elected Trump.

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Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

July 25, 2017 6:44 p.m. ET

Terry McAuliffe, governor of Virginia and former prolific Clinton fundraiser, is no idiot when it comes to politics. In response to a general question about Hillary Clinton’s postelection deportment, he not only turned a recent Politico podcast discussion to Russia’s election meddling but zeroed in on fake Russian intelligence implicated in FBI chief James Comey’s election interventions.

Why this underplayed episode, among all the overplayed theories of Russian meddling, might weigh on his mind is no mystery. Put aside the...